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To: ClintonBeGone
I can't speak for the author, but most people who have a grasp on history can often predict with a degree of certainly, what will happen in the future.

Really?! Can you give some examples from past of such successful predictions? If most such people can do it the examples must be many!

45 posted on 02/04/2004 8:12:09 AM PST by A. Pole (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
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To: A. Pole
Really?! Can you give some examples from past of such successful predictions? If most such people can do it the examples must be many!

Arthur C. Clarke, geosynchronous satellites

51 posted on 02/04/2004 8:21:22 AM PST by null and void
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To: A. Pole
Can you give some examples from past of such successful predictions?

Bill Gates made a prediction that it wouldn't be long before every home has a PC . . . when he first developed Windows.

52 posted on 02/04/2004 8:26:36 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: A. Pole
Ludwig von Mises predicted (in 1920) that command economies will ultimately collapse because only a free market can efficiently allocate resources.
73 posted on 02/04/2004 8:55:00 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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